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Researching Strengths That Contribute to Good Health and Protect Against Illness

Our Mission

To evaluate positive health assets that help people stay healthy and recover more quickly when they are sick

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The goal of today’s health care system is generally to bring people who are sick out of illness. This takes them from negative health to a state that is neutral—free from health problems but not necessarily thriving. Positive Health’s approach works with the positive—with what is right with you–—and builds on those assets to help achieve and maintain good health.

Positive Health is the scientific study of health assets. A “health asset” is a factor that produces stronger health, over and above risk factors for disease. Positive Health works to discover which specific health assets produce longer, healthy life, and which health assets lower disease risk and health care costs. The goal is to strive for optimal health —beyond the mere absence of illness.

- See more at: http://positivehealthresearch.org/about#sthash.j2KreS1Y.dpuf

The goal of today’s health care system is generally to bring people who are sick out of illness. This takes them from negative health to a state that is neutral—free from health problems but not necessarily thriving. Positive Health’s approach works with the positive—with what is right with you–—and builds on those assets to help achieve and maintain good health.

Positive Health is the scientific study of health assets. A “health asset” is a factor that produces stronger health, over and above risk factors for disease. Positive Health works to discover which specific health assets produce longer, healthy life, and which health assets lower disease risk and health care costs. The goal is to strive for optimal health —beyond the mere absence of illness.

- See more at: http://positivehealthresearch.org/about#sthash.j2KreS1Y.dpuf

The goal of today’s health care system is generally to bring people who are sick out of illness. This takes them from negative health to a state that is neutral—free from health problems but not necessarily thriving. Positive Health’s approach works with the positive—with what is right with you–—and builds on those assets to help achieve and maintain good health.

Positive Health is the scientific study of health assets. A “health asset” is a factor that produces stronger health, over and above risk factors for disease. Positive Health works to discover which specific health assets produce longer, healthy life, and which health assets lower disease risk and health care costs. The goal is to strive for optimal health —beyond the mere absence of illness.

- See more at: http://positivehealthresearch.org/about#sthash.j2KreS1Y.dpuf

The goal of today’s health care system is generally to bring people who are sick out of illness. This takes them from negative health to a state that is neutral—free from health problems but not necessarily thriving. Positive Health’s approach works with the positive—with what is right with you–—and builds on those assets to help achieve and maintain good health.

Positive Health is the scientific study of health assets. A “health asset” is a factor that produces stronger health, over and above risk factors for disease. Positive Health works to discover which specific health assets produce longer, healthy life, and which health assets lower disease risk and health care costs. The goal is to strive for optimal health —beyond the mere absence of illness.

- See more at: http://positivehealthresearch.org/about#sthash.j2KreS1Y.dpuf

The goal of today’s health care system is generally to bring people who are sick out of illness. This takes them from negative health to a state that is neutral—free from health problems but not necessarily thriving. Positive Health’s approach works with the positive—with what is right with you–—and builds on those assets to help achieve and maintain good health.

Positive Health is the scientific study of health assets. A “health asset” is a factor that produces stronger health, over and above risk factors for disease. Positive Health works to discover which specific health assets produce longer, healthy life, and which health assets lower disease risk and health care costs. The goal is to strive for optimal health —beyond the mere absence of illness.

- See more at: http://positivehealthresearch.org/about#sthash.j2KreS1Y.dpuf

The goal of today’s health care system is generally to bring people who are sick out of illness. This takes them from negative health to a state that is neutral—free from health problems but not necessarily thriving. Positive Health’s approach works with the positive—with what is right with you–—and builds on those assets to help achieve and maintain good health.

Positive Health is the scientific study of health assets. A “health asset” is a factor that produces stronger health, over and above risk factors for disease. Positive Health works to discover which specific health assets produce longer, healthy life, and which health assets lower disease risk and health care costs. The goal is to strive for optimal health —beyond the mere absence of illness.

- See more at: http://positivehealthresearch.org/about#sthash.j2KreS1Y.dpuf

The goal of today’s health care system is generally to bring people who are sick out of illness. This takes them from negative health to a state that is neutral—free from health problems but not necessarily thriving. Positive Health’s approach works with the positive—with what is right with you–—and builds on those assets to help achieve and maintain good health.

Positive Health is the scientific study of health assets. A “health asset” is a factor that produces stronger health, over and above risk factors for disease. Positive Health works to discover which specific health assets produce longer, healthy life, and which health assets lower disease risk and health care costs. The goal is to strive for optimal health —beyond the mere absence of illness.

- See more at: http://positivehealthresearch.org/about#sthash.j2KreS1Y.dpufd

The goal of today’s health care system is generally to bring people who are sick out of illness. This takes them from negative health to a state that is neutral—free from health problems but not necessarily thriving. Positive Health’s approach works with the positive—with what is right with you–—and builds on those assets to help achieve and maintain good health.

Positive Health is the scientific study of health assets. A “health asset” is a factor that produces stronger health, over and above risk factors for disease. Positive Health works to discover which specific health assets produce longer, healthy life, and which health assets lower disease risk and health care costs. The goal is to strive for optimal health —beyond the mere absence of illness.

- See more at: http://positivehealthresearch.org/about#sthash.j2KreS1Y.dpuf

The goal of today’s health care system is generally to bring people who are sick out of illness. This takes them from negative health to a state that is neutral—free from health problems but not necessarily thriving. Positive Health’s approach works with the positive—with what is right with you–—and builds on those assets to help achieve and maintain good health.

Positive Health is the scientific study of health assets. A “health asset” is a factor that produces stronger health, over and above risk factors for disease. Positive Health works to discover which specific health assets produce longer, healthy life, and which health assets lower disease risk and health care costs. The goal is to strive for optimal health —beyond the mere absence of illness.

- See more at: http://positivehealthresearch.org/about#sthash.j2KreS1Y.dpuf

Our health care system has long focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease. But health is more than absence of disease. Positive Health focuses on promoting people’s positive health assets—strengths that can contribute to a longer, healthy life.

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We’re working to identify assets that lead to better health, examining factors like life satisfaction, relationships, and low blood pressure. Our researchers are collecting data, analyzing existing data from completed longitudinal studies and developing health measures to better understand the impact of these health assets. Search our research database.

Our Projects

The Positive Cardiovascular Project: Exploring the epidemiology of cardiovascular health and its relation to psychological factors, looking at changes in tobacco smoke exposure, healthy diet score, physical activity, BMI, cholesterol, blood pressure and blood glucose from childhood into adolescence and throughout adulthood.

Physical Activity Project : Examining how positive health can increase physical activity levels. The obesity epidemic, identified by many as one of the biggest public health problems facing the world, is largely due to declining levels of occupational energy expenditure. This conclusion calls for a major refocusing of efforts to deal with the obesity epidemic.

Measurement of Flourishing: Examining the association between well-being and physical health, and creating positive health measure for research.